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Putting this as a submission because ask has a character limit Thin privilege is everyone believing you when you say you're pregnant. I was on a train a few weeks back and I happened to be sitting next to a "larger lady" (she was about size 16 ish, from what I could see of the clothes she was re-folding in her shopping bag, not that that's really relevant) who'd just been treating herself and had bought some maternity clothes. I ended up striking up a conversation with her about baby things, when she was due, how difficult it is to find affordable childcare etc (I used to babysit my neighbour's kids in the holidays while they worked for cheap because they couldn't afford childcare and things) and at the next station this woman with her four-year-old boy got on the train, and she started staring at the woman expectantly as I was sorting my bags out to move aside for them. In fact, even though I got up and there was a spare seat next to mine that the boy was sat in this woman went up to the lady l'd been speaking to and said Why don't you stand? You're perfectly able to, you're just lazy I'm rather proud to say that I flipped my s--- at this point and called the fat-shaming person an ignorant slob, said the woman was pregnant and so couldn't stand, nor was she obliged to for "a selfish, middle- upper class and perfectly able-bodied woman such as yourself, and said "I got up to offer you my seat either you sit in it or I'Il sit down and you can stand. After all you're perfectly able to, you're just lazy," I genuinely didn't expect the entire carriage to applaud me for standing up to that woman but I was rather proud of myself for having done so. Apparently some London commuters dislike thin privilege too TAGS hin privrilege fat discrimination bodr policing seating double standards submission

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Mike Primavera @primawesome * Follow Just told a guy talking on his phone in the library to shut the f--- up, and everyone applauded me, so l told them to shut the f--- up too. 4,310 9,433 2:46 PM-17 Oct 2011
35 subscribers OH MY GOD. IJUST WITNESSED THE SINGLE GREATEST MOMENT IN HUMAN HISTORY On a bus, heading home from the city I am greeted by an incredibly nice Russian-sounding bus driver with a smile on his face. About 4 stops later (in the valley, of course) a bogan hops on with his skanky (I assume) girifriend. (May have been sister. May have been both.) Naturally, he does not have the money for a bus, so of course The Bogan (Henceforth referred to as S----Skull) blames the bus driver Using all manner of racial slurs, loud profanities and general offensive douchbagery, S----Skull proceeds to be a a------ and make the entire bus shuffle uncomfortably in their seats. All except one man. Ah, this man. I wish I could BE this man, this average looking hero that stepped up to defend the poor bus driver Look mate, he's just doing his job. How's about you calm down and leave the driver alone. It's no t his fault you can't pay." The logic of the situation made a slight whistling noise as it passed over S---- Skull's head. We could see the Tonka Truck gears dunk and grind in this mans underdeveloped cranium. Calm...down? It must be a challenge! "Are you try'na start met You wanna go me you kingYo nna fing go me?" Ah truly the words of a poet. But not even Oscar Wilde himself could have predict the Batman-esque reaction of: Yeah, actually. Let's do this. Off the bus." You could hear a penny drop as the 256mb brain inside S----Skull's s----- little skull ticked over. Finally the judging eyes of the bus coupled with the high-pitched, slurring voice of his sister-daughter telling him to "take him and (quoting directly) "don't take none that s--- babe" convince them both to step off the bus ready to fight. Calmer than a monk on morphine, our hero turns to the bus driver, simply says "shut the door mate", AND WALKS BACK TO HIS M------------ SEAT. The bus driver shut the door, drove away, and the entire bus ERUPTED. We were dlapping, we were cheering, I gave S----Skull the finger out the window and Im pretty sure people hugged. T:dr: Thank you stranger, for making humans okay in my book Unlike Comment Share You lke this.
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